February 26, 2021February 24, 2021
A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
So, the time has come. Here I am, three years after I sat down for the first time to write ... Read more
February 15, 2021February 11, 2021
A Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Have you ever noticed how the people with the most light to give are often those who have endured the ... Read more
February 1, 2021January 27, 2021
Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
It’s surreal to ponder that our world has been living through a pandemic for a year now. That we’ve endured ... Read more
December 14, 2020December 9, 2020
Shedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Just before the world changed overnight in March, I wrote a column titled “The Paradox of Healing.” In it, I ... Read more
November 16, 2020November 12, 2020
Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
The other day, I chanced upon a poem called “Sometimes” that stopped me in my tracks and penetrated right through ... Read more
September 28, 2020September 24, 2020
Let’s Not Forget the Superheroes
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Lately, in the midst of all the insanity going on in the world and the ensuing, albeit dispiriting, headlines covering ... Read more
September 14, 2020September 10, 2020
Frozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
For the past week, I have been living in what I can only describe as a state of unrelenting exhaustion. ... Read more
August 31, 2020August 27, 2020
Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
This is a question I found myself pondering the other week as I locked up my little flat and escaped ... Read more
August 17, 2020August 13, 2020
Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
By the time this column is published, the one-year anniversary of my lifesaving stem cell transplant will have come and ... Read more
July 27, 2020July 23, 2020
This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
This week I’ve felt completely at a loss over what to write about. It happens sometimes. Usually there’s something on ... Read more
July 13, 2020July 9, 2020
Total Happiness Is Unobtainable, and That’s OK
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
I recently came to the realization that none of us will ever be totally happy. Upbeat way to start a ... Read more
June 29, 2020June 25, 2020
As I Befriend My Fear of Relapse, Fear Loses Its Power
Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman
Being a cancer survivor is a complicated thing. It’s a lot of conflicting experiences at once. It’s walking down the ... Read more

October 9, 2018October 9, 2018

LLS Seeks Corporate Support for Annual ‘Light The Night’ Campaign

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) says there’s still time to join its annual Light The Night fundraising campaign, which aims to help blood cancer patients nationwide and illuminate paths to ... Read more

October 8, 2018

Portola’s Cerdulatinib Wins Orphan Drug Designation for Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug status to Portola Pharmaceuticals‘ investigative therapy cerdulatinib to treat patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL), the company announced. Orphan drug designation aims to encourage therapies for ... Read more

October 8, 2018October 5, 2018

Embracing the Insecurity

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

I had initially planned for this week’s column to be about confidence. I was going to write about some of the big changes that have recently happened in my life, ... Read more

October 5, 2018October 4, 2018

We Need to Talk About Survival Statistics

Columns, Things That Give Me Hope - a Column by Bob McEachern

“How much time do I have?” When we’re diagnosed, that’s one of the first questions we ask. We want a number. But in my 10-plus years as a follicular lymphoma ... Read more

October 4, 2018December 12, 2019

Adcetris Added to Front-line Chemo Significantly Improves Survival in PTCL Patients, Phase 3 Trial Shows

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Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) as an add-on to first-line chemotherapy significantly extends the time to disease worsening or death in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) whose tumors are positive for ... Read more

October 3, 2018

Adcetris-Gemcitabine Combo Eliminates Cancer in Two-thirds of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients in Phase 1/2 Trial

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A combination of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) and the chemotherapy gemcitabine completely eliminated the tumors in two out of three children and young adults with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a Phase 1/2 ... Read more

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

Abdominal Obesity Better Than BMI at Predicting Risk for Blood Diseases, Study Shows

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Measuring abdominal fat (obesity), including waist circumference, is a better predictor of the risk of developing hematological malignancies, especially multiple myeloma, than body mass index (BMI), according to a population-based ... Read more

October 1, 2018October 3, 2018

FDA Approves Copiktra Capsules for 2 Lymphoma Types, Verastem Announces

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Copiktra (duvelisib) capsules for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) after a minimum of two prior therapies. ... Read more

September 27, 2018September 29, 2018

Burlington, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team Up to Raise Funds, Support Young Survivors

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Coinciding with National Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Burlington Stores and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) are once again partnering in the quest to raise funds for blood cancer research and ... Read more

September 26, 2018

Adcetris, Chemo Combo Approved in Japan for Untreated, Advanced Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

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The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved the use of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with standard chemotherapy as a frontline treatment for CD30-positive Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients ... Read more

September 25, 2018

NICE Rejects Kymriah for England’s NHS to Treat Aggressive DLBCL

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Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), developed by Novartis, has not been recommended as a treatment for adults with aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) for England’s National Health Service (NHS). The National Institute for Health ... Read more

September 24, 2018

Adcetris May Increase Risk of Lung Toxicity in Younger Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients, Study Suggests

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Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) treatment may increase the chances of lung toxicity in children and young adults with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a small retrospective study suggests. The study, “Pulmonary ... Read more

A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers

A Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty

Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community

Shedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact

Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right

Let’s Not Forget the Superheroes

Frozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor

Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?

Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery

This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude

Total Happiness Is Unobtainable, and That’s OK

As I Befriend My Fear of Relapse, Fear Loses Its Power